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Waikato Argus, Volume XXV, Issue 3844, 27 July 1908, Page 2

"It would be a good thing if these men were cleared out of the world; they are just wasters." This is the opinion Mr Justice Rogers expressed at Sydney lately, at the Quarter Sessions, of men who frequent public places and use bad language in the presence of women. The case being heard was one in which a young man named Kerins was charged with maliciously wounding a woman in a fish shop at Leichardt. It was shown that there was a quarrel in the shop, and one of the young men concerned used some foul language in front of the wife and daughter of the proprietor. The Crown alleged that the accused thereupon threw a bottle at the man who was swearing, and missing him struck Mrs Loaney. The and was found not guilty by the jury. In discharging the accused, Mr Justice Rogers said:—"lf you had been found guiity, I should not have sent you to gaol. I would have released you under the provisions of the Crimes Act relating to first offenders, or I would have suspended sentence, for the reason that I believe you threw the sauce bottle in a feeling of disgust, and proper disgust, at the vile language used by that man. Still you should not have thrown the bottle. If you had given the man a thorough good thrashing you ought to have been applauded for it. It is a pity the young men there did not give the man a sound beating and throw him out of the shop." For Bronchial Coughs take Woods Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d